Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book Constitutional reform is a topic of perennial academic debate, perhaps now more than ever amid sharp polarization in the electorate ...

This book examines how micro contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everyday situations of crises and crimes through an i...

About the Book Completely revised and updated, Hazardous Materials Compliance for Public Research Organizations: A Case Study, Second Edition prese...

Gramsci?s theory of common sense is a metanarrative that can be used to explain both religion and political formations. This book examines Gramsci?...

About the Book Globalization has changed the context for, and the organizational forms of, politics, unleashing forces in support of, and in opposi...

About the Book Drawing upon new research and methods outside the traditional focus, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a new practical p...

About the Book Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a rela...

Fully updated for the second edition, this text provides a concise and informative introduction to how global health is governed, exploring the way...

About the Book The World Social Forum quickly became the largest political gathering in human history and continues to offer a direct challenge to ...

Exploring geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific Region, a major hub of global, economic, commercial, military, diplomatic, and cultural activities in the...

About the Book Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age brings together original chapters from 34 noted scholars from two disciplines ...

About the Book This guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history. R...

About the Book Creative strategies have been central to global social movements. From the theatrics of the 1999 Seattle protests, to the rebel clow...

About the Book Covering all the basics and more, this book is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to the study of the European U...

About the Book As the world considers how to deal with the impacts of a changing climate, it's vital that we understand the ways in which the Unite...

About the Book Extensive coverage of the political, economic and social affairs of the region. This impartial up-to-date survey of the countries an...

About the Book This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of diplomacy and its vital role in an era of increasing international ...

About the Book In Deploying Ourselves, David A. Westbrook puts the case for major reform of US national security. He argues that today's national s...

This book studies the deliberative dynamics in the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations? specialised agency for regulating...

About the Book What arguments have critics of American wars and interventions put forward, and what arguments do they currently employ? Thomas Jeff...

The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping’s strategies to address critica...

About the Book This accessible, user-friendly guide provides students with all the key information and analysis on the European Union and its polic...

About the Book British Foreign Policy since 1945 brings a chronological approach to the study of British foreign policy since the Second World War ...

About the Book This engaging and concise new edition offers the student and general reader a compact, readable treatment of British membership of t...

About the Book The sixth edition of Becoming a Public Relations Writer continues its place as an essential guide to the writing process for public ...

About the Book The American Ideology explicates and criticizes two notions of reason in society: efficiency and the concept of the reasonable. Desp...

About the Book Popular distrust and the entrenchment of government by professionals lie at the root of America's most pressing political problems. ...

About the Book Professor J. David Singer has been arguably the most important influence on quantitative research into the causes and attributes of ...

About the Book E-Governance as a field of study is relatively new when considered within the broader historical context of US democracy. The advent...

This book posits that a sustainable future is possible without abandoning Capitalism. In its current form as Consumer Capitalism, the organization ...

About the Book The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215, has come to stand for the rule of law, curbs on executive power and the freedom to enjoy basic libe...

This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the problem of war crimes in modern history, emphasizing the development of laws aimed at reg...

This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and...

This text, provides an interdisciplinary and international introduction to the study of political economy, looking at interests, institutions, idea...

Populism and Neoliberalism argues that the roots of populism lay in the contradiction between the democratic ideal, which implies that the people s...

Comparative European Party Systems, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis across 48 party systems of party competition, electoral syste...

The American cultural landscape has shifted considerably since the 1990s. As church attendance has declined, seculars have increased in number and ...

Colebatch, Castles and a collection of policy practitioners and scholars investigate the process of policy making through a range of current policy...

Contemporary China: A New Superpower? is a unique textbook introducing the complexity and diversity of China’s society, politics, economics, and in...

Public Personnel Management has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of ...

Providing the tools for critical thinking, the fifth edition of Analyzing American Democracy: Politics and Political Science relies on statistical ...

Social equity, or the lack of social equity, is practiced in all of our organizations. By focusing on advancing social equity in organizational cul...

This book offers a unique multi-generational approach to saving Social Security.

Contemporary politics is mass-communication politics. Politicians are not only seen and heard, they are seen and heard in close-up through televisi...

Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism. Start...